The Australian Legend"This book attempts to trace the historical origins and development of the Australian legend or national mystique. It argues that a specifically Australian outlook grew up first and most clearly among the bush workers in the Australian pastoral industry, and that this group has had an influence, completely disproportionate to its numerical and economic strength, on the attitudes of the whole Australian community."--Foreword |
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Page 52
... tended to glory insultingly in his new - found confidence was a measure of his previous degradation . As John Sidney ... tended to attach them also more quickly and closely to that of their adopted country . The brute fact that their ...
... tended to glory insultingly in his new - found confidence was a measure of his previous degradation . As John Sidney ... tended to attach them also more quickly and closely to that of their adopted country . The brute fact that their ...
Page 56
... tended to spring up first among the convicts and lower - class immigrants , and it is true only to say that , among these elements of the population , people of Irish birth or ancestry tended to acquire the new outlook most readily and ...
... tended to spring up first among the convicts and lower - class immigrants , and it is true only to say that , among these elements of the population , people of Irish birth or ancestry tended to acquire the new outlook most readily and ...
Page 211
... tended to romanticize it , looking back on it as something which had passed or was passing . However , while all these changes tended to end the conditions which had produced the old up - country ethos , they also tended to make city ...
... tended to romanticize it , looking back on it as something which had passed or was passing . However , while all these changes tended to end the conditions which had produced the old up - country ethos , they also tended to make city ...
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